After Kissing the World-Weary Female Supporting Character [Transmigration] - Chapter 42

“Ji Ji!” Song Xingzi looked up in surprise. Ji Ruyue was leaning against the door, gazing at her calmly.

“Don’t you recognize me?”

“No, no,” Song Xingzi shook her head, hesitating before speaking slowly. “I thought you were still angry. I…”

“Come inside and talk,” Ji Ruyue held out her hand to Song Xingzi, pulling her up from the ground.

“Ji Ji,” Song Xingzi and Ji Ruyue sat facing each other. She didn’t quite understand Ji Ruyue’s mood, which changed as quickly as a June sky.

“I’m sorry,” Ji Ruyue pushed the tea set on the coffee table aside, staring at Song Xingzi’s confused face, and apologized with extreme seriousness. Then, as if trying to suppress panic, she pressed her left hand against her right arm and spoke cautiously, “I shouldn’t have said those things to you. It was not my intention to diminish or belittle you.”

“It’s okay, Ji Ji. I was also wrong, I…”

Song Xingzi recovered her senses and hastily tried to explain, but Ji Ruyue motioned for her to be quiet. Song Xingzi didn’t know why, but she still obeyed.

“Listen to me finish. If I miss this chance, I don’t know if I’ll ever have the courage to say it.”

Ji Ruyue’s expression was incredibly solemn, as if she wasn’t talking to a friend but engaging in a negotiation to save the world. Song Xingzi was affected by her seriousness and nodded solemnly, indicating she understood.

“I lost my temper with you because I saw the original Song Xingzi in you. The way you looked then was too much like her, and I couldn’t control myself. I wasn’t attacking you; I was scared. I was afraid you were her. I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t harbor any ill will toward you. Do you believe me?”

Song Xingzi nodded frantically. She had a terrifying suspicion.

“Do you want to know why I behave this way? Like a lunatic, so unreasonable.”

Song Xingzi first nodded, then shook her head. Ji Ruyue smiled, a sickly blush appearing on her overly pale face.

“Are you scared? It’s okay. I’ve never told anyone this before because it’s truly unbelievable, like a plot straight out of a TV series. But since something like you transmigrating can happen, this probably isn’t too strange either.” At this point, Ji Ruyue paused, seemingly organizing her thoughts to avoid shocking the young girl in front of her. “I was reborn.”

The suspicion had come true! Song Xingzi relaxed her tense posture. She looked at Ji Ruyue with the calmest and most inclusive gaze she could manage.

“I clearly remember you—no, the original Song Xingzi—and her entanglement with Li Yebai, how I was so obsessed with Li Yebai, yet how thoroughly I was used by him. Not only was my family destroyed, but I was also left with a terrible reputation and was reviled by others.”

Ji Ruyue trembled. Song Xingzi affectionately held her hand. “When I opened my eyes and realized everything had started over, can you imagine my excitement? Especially with you running into my arms, everything was different. I got a fresh start, and you were also off-track. To me, this meant change, it meant vitality. So, when I saw Gu Zhu hitting you and you not fighting back, I…”

“I couldn’t distinguish whether the person hitting you was her or me. I wondered if I was really reborn? Has everything changed? So, I… I’m sorry, I…”

Ji Ruyue closed her eyes, unable to continue.

Song Xingzi held her hand and shook her head. Before this, she had never considered that Ji Ruyue was reborn. She had often been troubled by her assumption that Ji Ruyue was obsessed with Li Yebai.

“Ji Ji, listen to me. I’m not angry or scared at all.” Ji Ruyue opened her eyes, which held a rare vulnerability and confusion. Song Xingzi felt a surge of maternal affection, wanting instantly to spill all her secrets, but her rationality held her back. Long-held principles told her not to speak.

After all, the White Snake from the neighboring mountain is still suppressed under the Leifeng Pagoda, and the fox spirit whose heart was dug out is still recovering in the mountains. Even though she believed Ji Ji wouldn’t hurt her, she couldn’t guarantee whether Ji Ji could accept a cross-species relationship. To be safe, I’ll keep quiet for now.

“Ji Ji, I didn’t tell you at first because I was afraid you’d be sad. And, this truth is cruel to everyone deeply involved,” Song Xingzi took a deep breath. “The reason I’m here… this world is a novel. You asked how I transmigrated, right? Before I transmigrated, I stayed up late reading a novel called The CEO’s Overbearing Love: Spoiling the Heavenly Priced Movie Queen. When I woke up, I was in this world.”

Seeing Ji Ruyue’s shocked expression, Song Xingzi continued, “Yes, the CEO is Li Yebai, and the Movie Queen is the female protagonist of this book, the person I transmigrated into.”

Ji Ruyue murmured, grasping Song Xingzi’s hand in return. “Then what about me? Who am I?”

“Ji Ji, Ji Ji, you are the early-stage female supporting character in this book. That scumbag Li Yebai… you were there to give him money and resources.”

As expected. As expected! Hahaha, hahaha!

Ji Ruyue confessed to Song Xingzi, but she didn’t reveal that she had been reborn multiple times and had already awakened self-awareness. On the one hand, she was genuinely afraid Song Xingzi would leave her. On the other hand, she wanted to use this method to explain her motives and firmly bind Song Xingzi to her side.

She knew that revealing her soft spot and her wounds was the best way to keep an innocent and kind person close.

But with Song Xingzi confirming her long-standing suspicions, Ji Ruyue didn’t know whether to be angry or grateful. It was like she had lived a very long dream, sometimes unable to distinguish between what was real and what was fantasy. In her daze and helplessness, someone had slapped her awake, telling her that all the bad things were real, and the rare moments of joy were just illusions.

“Ji Ji, I was always worried you would become obsessed with Li Yebai and be deceived by him, just like in the book. Also,” Song Xingzi smiled sheepishly, “I really liked Ji Ji when I was reading the novel, so I projected the novel’s image onto you. When Ji Ji said those words just now, I felt you were a bit different from the Ji Ji in my heart, and I was very sad. But this Ji Ji, the Ji Ji who is really beside me, is the true one! I’m sorry, Ji Ji. I shouldn’t have labeled you and then gotten angry at you. Ji Ji is the person I like the most!”

I said it. It’s not too sappy after all.

Song Xingzi ignored the heat on her face. “Li Yebai is not a good person. He instructed He Ya to sow discord between us and lure me into his trap. We cannot fall for his scheme! And at the time, Ji Ji looked very dangerous, and I was worried you would be photographed, which would be bad for you, so I dragged you away.”

With her carefully planned lines spoken by the other person, Ji Ruyue could only nod.

Meanwhile, walking on the road, He Ya sneezed, and then a cascade of cold water fell from above. She rubbed her nose and smiled self-deprecatingly. “The retribution is starting just as I was preparing to stop? First, I slip and now I get splashed with water.”

Song Xingzi, the actual mastermind, was completely oblivious. She held Ji Ruyue’s hand and continued chattering, “Gu Zhu isn’t bad-hearted, and I already taught her a lesson. I do pursue fairness and justice, but I’m not that foolish. I wouldn’t let someone hit me without fighting back foolishly. Don’t worry, Ji Ji, I’m not the female lead. I’m Little Song Zi, completely different from her!”

Ji Ruyue hesitated for a moment. “You knew He Ya was a bad person, so why did you treat her like an idiot before?”

Song Xingzi: “…” I’m being hurt, right? This is real, right? Ji Ji just called me an idiot.

“Hehe, I was just gathering intelligence, you know! I was never fooled by her sugar-coated bullets!”

“Oh,” Ji Ruyue didn’t believe her at all. Song Xingzi was easily deceived, and she knew that from the beginning. Otherwise, Song Xingzi wouldn’t have easily confided secrets to her or so easily believed every word she said.

“Aiya, let’s not talk about that,” Song Xingzi firmly kept her spirit identity a secret, trying to change the subject. “Ji Ji, since we’ve both confessed, we are now comrades in arms! I will help Ji Ji deal with that scumbag Li Yebai, and I absolutely won’t become the female lead. Ji Ji, don’t worry!”

With her carefully prepared lines being spoken by Song Xingzi again, Ji Ruyue continued to nod.

“Then is Ji Ji still angry? Will you kick me out?”

Song Xingzi looked eagerly at Ji Ruyue, like a small animal afraid of being abandoned.

“What are you thinking?” Ji Ruyue smiled and flicked Song Xingzi’s forehead. “I’m the one who’s afraid that you, the female lead, will leave me.”

Song Xingzi chuckled innocently, taking Ji Ruyue’s hand and placing it on her own cheek, rubbing against it. “No, no! Ji Ji is my favorite person! Hehehe!”

Then stay by my side forever. You’re not allowed to run away even after seeing the real me, Ji Ruyue thought, narrowing her eyes and gently pinching her cheek again.

So soft!

The bubble of darkness was popped. Ji Ruyue pinched her again, smiling unconsciously.

Song Xingzi protested softly, “My face is going to swell up! Both sides will swell!”

“Does it still hurt?” Ji Ruyue let go of her hand, her fingers hovering over Song Xingzi’s slightly reddened cheek. “After this series is finished, we won’t take any more acting jobs. The entertainment industry isn’t suitable for you.”

Since I’ve decided to keep her close, I’ll go all the way. As for the male lead, I hope you don’t mind taking on the path of the malicious male supporting character.

“It’s fine, it doesn’t hurt,” Song Xingzi had already healed herself with spiritual power, but she hadn’t removed the redness to avoid creating a supernatural incident. “I still need to act. It’s just small stuff. I won’t let anyone bully me!”

If I don’t act, won’t I keep letting Ji Ji pay for everything? Then I’ll truly become what He Ya said, being kept by Ji Ji. No way, I can’t do that. I need to at least earn enough money to open a store first!

Ji Ruyue considered this, her fingertip resting on Song Xingzi’s face. “Then take one last variety show. I’ll join you,” and then, Li’s corporation will go bankrupt. Li Yebai, I will definitely be more ruthless than you, leaving you with no way out.

Song Xingzi, whose mind-reading only failed her with Ji Ji, was unaware of her thoughts and counted on her fingers how much money she had earned so far.

On this side, the two finally confessed their true feelings and casually discussed future plans. On the other side, Gu Zhu took a day off, ran back to the hotel, and cried for a long time. By noon, she was still feeling wronged and scared, and she called her cousin’s number.

The phone rang for a while before finally connecting, and a gentle female voice came through, “Zhuzi? What’s wrong?”

Hearing her sister’s voice, Gu Zhu, whose tears had finally stopped, started crying again, saying haltingly, “Sis, are you, boo hoo hoo, are you busy right now? Boo hoo…”

“What is it? Why are you crying like this?” Gu Yu frowned and gestured for her assistant to be quiet. “I’m not busy. I’m in the car right now. Why are you crying so badly, Zhuzi?”

“Boo hoo hoo, I never want to like Little Boss Ji again. Boo hoo. I even hit someone today. Boo hoo. And then, I, was, boo hoo hoo, I was hit by Little Boss Ji…”

Gu Yu frowned, listening to Gu Zhu intermittently explain what happened. “So, Zhuzi, you used the acting as an excuse to vent your anger and hit Song Xingzi? Didn’t you praise her for being simple and kind and want to be friends with her?”

“I… she lied to me, boo hoo hoo, she’s shameless, a white lotus, hiccup.” Gu Zhu cried until she was breathless and hiccupping, recounting Song Xingzi’s deception and her incredibly tragic history of pursuing her crush because of it, all in between hiccups.

Gu Yu did not laugh. Lying back in her seat, she pointed out, though she was tired, “Firstly, Little Boss Ji never liked you to begin with. Secondly, according to your account, Song Xingzi never misled you after the first time she told you Little Boss Ji liked her type. She even taught you how to cook, right?”

“Yes, but if it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t have acted like an idiot,” Gu Zhu realized her Best Actress cousin had a hidden meaning in her words but still refused to admit her mistake.

“Get a grip,” Gu Yu sighed. “Zhuzi, she was probably just joking with you the first time, and you were foolish enough not to see it. Your being ignored has nothing to do with her. Quite the opposite, if it weren’t for her, you probably wouldn’t even have the chance to get close to Little Boss Ji.”

“Sis, why aren’t you even helping me! It’s clearly…”

“Clearly what? You know Little Boss Ji went to the set because of her, right? Did she really do anything wrong to you from start to finish? What’s wrong with you? After only filming one series, you’ve become this unreasonable? And you’ve even learned to use acting to vent your personal anger?”

Gu Zhu fell silent. She knew in her heart that everything Gu Yu said was true. She had been constantly incited by He Ya, that scheming woman, and she was blinded by emotion, never stopping to think carefully. In a moment of impulse, she had done such a thing.

I didn’t mean to do that. Crap, I was so stupid, so unbelievably stupid. I was used as a weapon for nothing!

“Zhuzi, do you really want to be an actress?”

“Sis, I was wrong,” Gu Zhu sat up in anger. That despicable, scheming woman. Damn it, she’s so annoying. “I was used as a weapon.”

“What’s the situation now?”

“It’s nothing, nothing. I can handle it. But, Sis, how do I apologize to Song Xingzi?” Gu Zhu punched the bed, frowning. “I hit her. She definitely won’t forgive me, and she might even smear me in the media to vent her anger. It doesn’t matter what happens to me, but I can’t let the mistake continue. Maybe I should just offer myself up and let her hit me back.”

“Hmm? Based on your description, Song Xingzi isn’t that kind of person.”

“Then what should I do? Should I go confess my crime and beg for punishment? She probably doesn’t like bloody scenes, and it’s embarrassing to go apologize right after hitting someone. Maybe I should buy her a limited edition handbag? No, no, Song Xingzi definitely doesn’t lack those. She signed with the same agency as you, Sis… Aahhh, apologizing is so hard! Why did I hit her? She’s so cute. Little Boss Ji wanted to beat me to death today, and she was the one who stopped her. Crap, I was so foolish, Sis, I’m truly foolish.”

Gu Yu: “…”

“If there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up. Be more careful in everything you do.”

“Wait, wait, wait, Sis, I got it!” Gu Zhu bounced off the bed with a quick, flexible move. “Song Xingzi is your fan! I saw her interview; she loves you! Sis, can you mail me a few private autographed photos? She’ll definitely love them. Then I’ll let her hit me back, and she’ll definitely forgive me!”

Gu Yu: “…”

“Are you serious? I’ll have my assistant mail them to you later. I’m hanging up.”

“Mhm, mhm, thank you, Sis! Sister Yu is the best!”

Gu Zhu hung up the phone and lay on the bed, still feeling uneasy, with a knot of frustration in her heart. She had known all along that He Ya, that scheming woman, was no good, yet she had allowed herself to be led by the nose and did something so low. She had brought her personal emotions into the acting and even physically hurt Song Xingzi!

Damn it, you scheming woman, you’re finished! Gu Zhu jumped up again. Hiss, my neck hurts so bad. Little Boss Ji, Little Boss Ji is really ruthless! Boo hoo hoo, this character setting of only being moved by one person is so incredibly captivating. Why couldn’t it be mine?

He Ya, who returned to the hotel with damp hair, was blow-drying it. She suddenly sneezed, and then watched as the hairdryer, which had been working perfectly fine, stopped heating up. It stopped heating up. No, it wasn’t hot…

Well, this isn’t just ordinary bad luck, is it? This is a freaking paranormal incident!!!